Hiroshi Sugimoto

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

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Description

Hiroshi Sugimoto
Cinerama Dome, Hollywood
signed and numbered 250 and embossed 19/25 at bottom right
gelatin silver print
16 1/2 by 21 1/4 in. 41.9 by 53.9 cm
Executed in 1993.

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner directly from the artist

Catalogue Note

"I am a habitual self-interlocutor. One evening while taking photographs at the American Museum of Natural History, I had a near-hallucinatory vision. My internal question-and-answer session leading up to this vision went something like this: 'Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame?' The answer: 'You get a shining screen.' Immediately I began experimenting in order to realize this vision. One afternoon, I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at a wide-open aperture. When the movie finished two hours later, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening I developed the film, and my vision exploded before my eyes."
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, 2005